The factorial structure of the ruminating anger scale and its relationship to some psychological variables in postgraduate students

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psychology, faculty of education, university of sadat city

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The current research aimed to explore the factor structure of the ruminating anger scale. The sample consisted of (170) students, of which (98) were from the master’s stage, and (72) from the doctoral stage. The results revealed: The exploratory factor analysis of the ruminating anger scale revealed four factors that were explained by (81,873) of the total variance, and the confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the quadruple structure of the scale, and the ruminating anger scale had a good degree of stability, as the value of the alpha coefficient came after understanding Reasons for anger (0.855), the thoughts of revenge (0.903), the reminiscence of anger (0.968), thoughts after anger (0.964). The scale of ruminating anger has a good internal consistency, and the scale of general anxiety and Life satisfaction has enjoyed a unilateral structure with a ratio of (65,481) and (77,158) of total variance, respectively, and the confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the unilateral factor structure of the scale of general anxiety and life satisfaction, and the general anxiety and life satisfaction scale also enjoyed a good degree of stability. A measure of general anxiety and life satisfaction with a good internal consistency, and a correlation was found between thoughts after anger, memories of anger and general anxiety positive correlation at a significance level (0.01), and the presence of a correlation between thoughts of revenge, thoughts of post-anger and satisfaction with life at a statistical significance (0.01), and the existence of a negative association between memories of anger and life satisfaction (0.05).

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